Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFFAIRS), workers were on their way back to the mills. In Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and other steel centers across the U.S., the millwrights, pipe fitters and laborers moved in to repair and start up the equipment that stood idle through the 116 days of the longest industry-wide steel strike in history. How long would it take for the steel industry to get back into full-scale operation...
...kept nonunion supervisory staffs in the mills to keep heat in the furnaces and do some of the basic repair work as the damage occurred. The industry will not know for sure until the furnaces start operating this week. Says one steelman: "We've never gone through a strike this long. When a furnace has been down for four months, nobody can say how it's going to work even though it looks in good shape...
Even if the industry goes back in operation rapidly, the effects of the strike on the U.S. economy will be felt for many weeks to come. Though there are still some 4,500,000 tons of finished steel in inventories in the U.S., much of it is in odd sizes. It will take at least four weeks before the pipelines begin to fill with new finished steel products, five to six weeks before completely balanced deliveries are resumed. The press of demand is so great that the steel companies will fill back orders as they appear on the books...
...Effects Go On. For the nation's big steel users, the prospect is for still more layoffs in the next six weeks. More than 410,000 workers outside the steel industry have been furloughed because of the strike; the Department of Labor reports that the layoffs will continue at an accelerating rate as steel supplies are exhausted. Both the number and size of the shutdown plants are increasing...
...LAWRENCE SEAWAY traffic for year will total an estimated 6,600 ships carrying 20 million tons of cargo when it closes for the winter at end of November. This is 20% less than expected, because late spring thaw and steel strike cut shipments...